Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	day_n	saul_n	1,144	5	9.5833	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54659	Light in darkness, or, A consideration of a comfortable and instructive resignation of the Church of God by an eminent and faithful watchman upon his departure : occasioned by the sad loss of ... Thomas Moor, Junior / by C.D.	Phelpes, Charles.	1669 (1669)	Wing P1980; ESTC R34380	157,055	186

the word of his grace 3. His grace still further appears to be great in this word of his grace if we consider the persons for whom he was thus greatly abased and that both as to their condition and as to their number 1. As to their condition in which they were we have it declared Rom. 5. 6 8 10. While we were yet without strength in due time Christ dyed for the ungodly God commendeth his love towar●●●s in that while we were yet sinners Christ dyed for us when we were enemies we were reconciled by the death of his Son And so when without strength to help our selves sick and sick to death as water spilt upon the ground that cannot be gathered up again 2 Sam. 14. 14. when none could by any means redeem his brother by any thing he could do suffer or offer to God Psal 49. 7. Gal. 2. 21. then he commended his love to us yea this great weakness and helplessness we had contracted to and brought upon our selves by out voluntary departure from God God made man upright in a condition to have had communion with his Creator but they sought out many inventions Eccl. 7. 29. Adam transgressed the Covenant and there dealt treacherously against God even as a Wife treacherously departeth from her Husband Hos 6. 7. and not for want but through wantonness listened to the lye of the tempter and so brought death and misery into the world Rom. 5. 12. Our comeliness was turned into corruption and we retained no strength and now to lay hold on us when we had voluntarily disabled our selves this was great love indeed Amongst men this shuts up the bowels of their pitty when any one doth willingly and wil●ully lame or disable himself who will bemoa● such an one or turn aside to ask how he doth But in such a state God pityed us yea when we were ungodly and sinners ungodly such as did not worship him or desire and much less deserve any favour yea acknowledged not our fault but sought to hide and cover it Job 31. 33. and to throw it from one to another yea the man as it were secretly to cast it upon God The woman thou gavest to be with me she gave me and I did eat yet now he manifested his love to them that asked not after him yea that hid themselves first from the presence of the Lord and afterward sought to cover their transgression by hiding it in their bosom And sinners such as had mist their mark and were greatly deceived they in their pride not content with their state God created them in but listening to the temptation of Satan aspired to an equality with God and to be as God's Oh high presumption to have a self-sufficiency in themselves but they missed miserably what they in hearkning to the seducer proposed to themselves and so became transgressor● and broke his Law and thereby became such as God hears not though they had cryed Joh. 9. 31. such as he could not delight in or have fellowship with yet now he had compassion on us This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1. 15. Christ hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust 1 Pet. 3. 18. yea when we were enemies enemies to him as well as to our selves haters of him God was in Christ reconciling us to himself David's kindness toward Saul wonderfully wrought upon him and it even broke his heart because he killed him not but spared his life when it was in the power of his hand to have destroyed him If a man find his enemy saith he will he let him go well away wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day 1 Sam. ●4 19. But alas David's love herein though very rare amongst men is not to be compared with this we are speaking of for Saul whom he spared was God's Anointed and King and therefore David could not put forth his hand against him and be innocent 1 Sam. 24. 10. 26. 9. But now on the contrary he that so testified love toward us was the Lord and heir of all things it is Christ the Lord 's anointed that dyed and we were his creatures and servants that had rebelled against him Again David parted with nothing that was dear to him much less laid down his life to shew kindness to Saul only spared him and forbore to touch him but Christ dyed for our sins that he might bring us back to God Is this the manner of man Oh Lord God Greater love than this hath no man than to lay down his life for his friends but God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners and enemies Christ dyed for us Joh. 15. 13. with Rom. 5. 6. 8. Great reason have we to break forth into admiration with the Psalmist and say How excellent and precious is thy loving kindness O God! Psal 36. 7. 2. The persons as to the number for whom he so humbled himself were all of them whose nature he took and in which he vvas made a little lovver than the Angels he vvas crovvned vvith glory and honour that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man Heb. 2. 9. It vvas a light thing too mean for and belovv him that he should be God's servant to raise up the Tribes of Jacob c. but God hath given him also that he should be for salvation to the ends of the earth Isa 49 6. And this began to be preached by the Lord himself God so loved the world saith he that he gave his only begotten Son c. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world thr●ugh him might be saved Ioh. 3. 16 17. This he spake to one man even to Nicodemu● that he might be born again We are apt to think that a particular application of God's love as men call it might have been more proper in this case vvhen our Saviour vvas applying himself to one person yet vve see the course our Saviour the Wisdom of God takes vvhen he is declaring the necessity of the Nevv-birth and directing to the means by vvhich a man may be born again And indeed herein he shevvs vvhat is the vvater of vvhich a man may be begotten again namely the pity and kindness of God to man-vvard and not some particular or peculiar love to this or that man And from his mouth the Samaritans received and learnt this lesson Now say they to the vvoman we believe not because of thy saying for we have heard him our selves and know that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world Joh. 4. 42. So Joh. 6. 51. And this was also confirmed unto us by them that heard him We thus judge saith the Apostle that if o●e dyed for all then were all dead and he dyed for all 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. Yea this